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unburns

unburns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unburn.

Meaning of unburn

Verb

unburn (third-person singular simple present unburns, present participle unburning, simple past and past participle unburned)

  1. (intransitive) To undergo the process of burning in reverse.
    • Similarly, you cannot 'unstir' the sugar from a cup of coffee once it has been dissolved, and you never see a pile of ash in the fireplace 'unburn' to become a log of wood again.2002, Jim Al-Khalili, Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines, page 122

Questions about unburns

What is unburns the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unburns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unburn.

Words near unburns in the dictionary

  1. unburn
  2. unburnable
  3. unburned
  4. unburning
  5. unburnished
  6. unburns
  7. unburnt
  8. unburped
  9. unburred
  10. unburrow
  11. unburrowed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unburns (page history and authors); unburn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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